Question on Zones

[CharInLasVegas]

For my osc store, I had to install zones even though I don't use zone based shipping. Do I also need to do that for zc? I only use weighted shipping.

[Ajeh]

If you sell to everyone in the world then you do not need Zones ...

[fairestcape]

Yeah... Linda beat me to it... but I'll add a bit too...

Configuring zones is important not just for shipping, but for customer access too.

If you have no intention of selling to Khazakstan, Outer Mongolia, Rwanda, Zimbabwe.... then get rid of these countries. (Along with all others you have no intention of selling your products into.)

Shoppers (sometimes fraud-seeking chancers, in places like Romania, Ghana and Korea) in these countries will not be able to register, and will not be able to checkout - unless they provide a delivery address in a zone you have "authorised".

So there is some protection in setting up zones - you are enabling your store only for your designated market(s).

[CharInLasVegas]

I should have mentioned, I only sell to the US. So, I guess I'll have to set that up.

Just to clarify - these are the zones under Admin > Locations NOT Admin > Shipping???

Admin > Shipping I don't need because I'm not using table rates, is that right?

[fairestcape]

Yes... in Locations / Taxes... That's where you control what countries, regions and zones you wish to allow access to your store.

Get rid of all countries where you don't intend to sell.

[CharInLasVegas]

Cool, thanks.

[Craft Magick]

I deleted the country GHANA from admin>locations>countries and now I get the following error whenever I view the customers list in admin>customers

Warning: array_merge() [function.array-merge]: Argument #1 is not an array in /craftmagick/admin/customers.php on line 1099

Warning: array_merge() [function.array-merge]: Argument #2 is not an array in /craftmagick/admin/customers.php on line 1101

Warning: reset() [function.reset]: Passed variable is not an array or object in /craftmagick/admin/includes/classes/object_info.php on line 29

Warning: Variable passed to each() is not an array or object in /craftmagick/admin/includes/classes/object_info.php on line 30

And now I cannot delete the fraudulent customers that were from ghana, either...

I realized after-the-fact that I should have deleted the two fraudulent customers from ghana BEFORE deleting the country and that is probably the reason for the error but since I didn't do that first is there any way to fix this now?

[Ajeh]

Perhaps try to put that back in?

The original read:

countries_id 	countries_name 	countries_iso_code_2 	countries_iso_code_3 	address_format_id
82 	Ghana 	GH 	GHA 	1

[fairestcape]

Are you able to login to "admin"?

If not, then you may have to re-insert Linda's "code" via phpMyAdmin.

[Craft Magick]

Perhaps try to put that back in?

The original read:

countries_id 	countries_name 	countries_iso_code_2 	countries_iso_code_3 	address_format_id
82 	Ghana 	GH 	GHA 	1

Thank you, that worked.

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